The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 19, 1903, Page 6

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His adroitriess | 1 leader was shown to good advantage. | age of an attempt of the Liberals to , and by presenting the is- as one tion for the benefit of the colo- 1 his whole programme indorsed by the de- i 252 to | e the free trade policy of Great| Britain has compelled her to submit quietly to ex- | from the trade of any other country. She | t retaliate in kind, and sought to make good | losses by military expansion of her sfiuence and trade in Asia and Africa. | ion has nearly reached its limit. | y field left, and the great cost of ex- that empire is a deterring influence. Great | is driven by circumstances to reverse her and the Commons consents that the Min- propose a retaliatory tariff. As far as this s it is protection, pure and simple, and when that | is once taken there can be no logical rest until the principle is as universally applied as it is in the United States. There need be no apprehension of in to our trade with Great Britain. Our pro- duction is needed by her to such an extent that she cannot avoid taking it. Her coal and iron mines are becoming so costly to operate that no tariff she can impose can exclude us from her market. We have in the inetal, fiber and food products the greatest resources and the cheapest production in the world. 1f any country try to build a tariff wall high enough to exclude us the injury will be inflicted on the other side of it, not on ours. This has been shown in Germany, where exclusion of our meat products has been constantly the cause of popular protests from the people, who want our meat. Germany has been dancing on first one foot and then the other as the tune has varied between that played by the meat-eaters and the agrarians, Those who lack food and demand it are ever the most persistent, and | their cry is to be silenced only by an adequate sup- ply. We live better than the rest of the world, and produce the largest surplus over our domestic consumption. As Nor our fibers, the cotton mills of Lancashire must have our cotton. We control the world its production. A British tariff that would shut out our cotton and wheat and meat would produce conditions in- the British Isles that no Ministry could continue and remain in power. The attitude of England toward American trade is therefore different from that toward France or Germany. Neither has food or fibers 1o spare. Their competition with England is in manufactured articles only. As we can pro- duce these better and cheaper than either of the Continental countries, a tariff that would shut them out of the British market would cause us no anxiety. American protectionists may well be gratified that their leadership is acknowledged by the most per- sistent free trade country in the world. We have al- | ways admitted that, as protection is good for us, it would not be bad for any other nation, and by that admission we stand. With protection the active pol- icy of Great Britain and her colonies, we will always have ample margin for reciprocal trade. Its first ei- fect will no doubt be an improvement in our com- mercial relations with Canada, whose rapid advance- ment in population and consuming power is of the greatest interest to us. The two great commercial nations, with a common language and common eco- nomic wants and ideas, will find no difficulty in mu- tual promotion of prosperity by 2 common tariff : policy. ajl towns se- retal tin in Perhaps if we could get at Mr. Cleveland’s real opinibn of the new Presidential boom that has been started for him we shouid find that he regards it as the one truly “grand, sweet song” of the season. | 1 | ins | Davitt to write up the mob murders of Bessarabia | shall be administered by the church, and that | other schools shall be permitted, and that no one| | complete indifference. { tria, Spain and several of the Litin-American states | dissolve | tolerance cuts no figure in the case of the Russian: | Jews, who, he says, are persecuted for their genius QUTSIDE MEDDLING. T is quite interesting to follow the cunning and tortuous course of Candidate Hearst in his effort to embroil the administration with classes of our citizens. Seizing upon the mob murders of the Jews of Bessarabia he immediately began propagating the idea that an international issue was presented that gave our Government the right of interference. Some were misled by this, and a few mass-meetings were decéived into calling for action. Enlarging his plan, encouraged by such partial success, he is now ing that it is the right and duty of President Roosevelt, officially, to demand of Russia that the Czar proclaim religious toleration in his empire. In his Examiner of the 16th inst. Candidate Hearst savs: “The President and, Secretary of State, accord- ing to their views, Cannot even suggest to the Czar that religious liberty would be desirable in Russia.” We have religious liberty in the United States. It is a part of our constitutional polic; We regard it as the best policy for us, and if the Czar should, in the name of his empire, suggest to our Government that it is not the best thing, and that a state religion and intolerance of nonconformists would be better, it would be justly regarded as an impertinent med- dling in our affairs. Stopping to note that Mr, Hearst’s much heralded employment of* Michael has produced one letter only, in which Davitt takes | pains to insist that the mob was not actuated by re- ligious prejudices at all, but found its motive in the superior ski'l of the Jews as artisans and financiers, we may well ask Candidate Hearst why, if Davitt| tells the. truth, there is any need of discussing the | religious phase of the issue? But suppose we begin to nag other nations on the question of 2 state church and religious intolerance, where are we to stop? There are not many ortho- dox Russians in the United States, and their voté is | But there are many Jews. [They | are influential. Their vote is much and their in- fluence is more. But principles and policies are not | affected by votes, nor numbers, nor influence. They are the same regardless of these. Therefore, if it} be a correct principle and a proper policy for this country to nag at other nations concerning their | policy toward religious dissenters, its application should be universal. | Candidate Hearst hopes to become President. | That amBition makes him attempt to use the intelli- gent Jews of this country. Suppose that his ambi- tion is realized and he become President, will he then, in the name oi the United States, demand of | Russia that which he declares it is the duty of Presi- [ dent Roosevelt and Secretary Hay to demand? If so, where will he stop? Russia is not the only coun- try that pursues an exclysive policy in religion. The Papacy has concordats with many nations, in which | nsequential. | | | | it is agreed by the state on one side and the church | on the other that the religion of the state and peo- | ple shall be Roman Catholic, and that the schools no shall teach anything obnoxious to the Holy See. | Upon these concordats the United States looks with | Thaq states that enter into | them regard them as the best for their people, and they are so accepted by the people. Yet they as littl:j corform to our constitutional policy as do the re-i ligious regulations of Russia. What will Candidate | Hearst do about them? Will he demand that Aus- these concordats, recognize marriage as solely a civil contract, do as France is doing and for- bid administration of schools by the church, and | wipe out all acceptance of that form of religion as | the favorite of the state? If he would, let us see if he will say so now. | Every Jew in the United States knows that reli- | gious toleration was never adopted by any country | by pressure from without, except that pressure was in the form of 2 victorious war. The emancipation of the Jews, wherever it has occurred, has been by the | voluntary act of the emancipating nation, as a meas- | ure of desirable internal policy. The removal of the | disability of Catholics in Great Britain was not ci-l‘ fected by outside pressure. It was not due to the in- fluence of the Vatican. It was not in recognition of the nagging or suggestion or demand of any other power or people. It was due solely to the genius of | O’Connell, who presented it on the lines of principle, | justice and hughani So it has been everywhere | that religious has yielded to religious liberty. This Government, as such, has no right, moral, international or constitutional. to interfere with the religious policy of Russia, nor of the states which re- gard the concordat as the most desirable policy for their people. The people of the United States have | their sympathies and their opinions, quite distinct, indeed, from the international policy of their Gov- ernment. They may resolve against Russia and | utter their opinions to be known of the wlmle} world, freely vpon all subjects that affect man everywhere, but it will require greater cunning than Candidate Hearst possesses or can hire for wages to convince Amerjcans that their Government as| such has a constitutional mission to demand of other nations that they be either exclusive or free in their religious policy. Aifter all, if Michael Davitt tell the truth, and he| was hired'to tell it by Candidate Hearst, religious in- | intolerance and skill, and not for the worship of the God of Abraham. While all New England and New York are mourn- ing over the drought New Jersey is chortling with joy because a scientist announces that the drought will kill mosquitoes by the millions. OUR RICHEST PEOPLE. ASHINGTON reports are to the effect W that the Government officials, being weary of the trouble of taking care of the Indians living in Indian Territory as “wards of the nation,” are expediting as rapidly as possible the work of turning over to the Indians all the property belong- ing to them, so that they can set up as an indepen- dent people.. When that is done the per capita wealth will be larger than that of any State or of any other Territory in the Union, for it is estimated that cach Indian will receive land and money to a value oi'upward ‘of $10,000. The work of division has been planned on a scale comparatively simple. The lands of the Territory are divided into four classes—first, those designed as town sites; second, those which are to be sold as| mineral lands; third, those distributed for farms; and fourth, those distributed for pasturage. It is calculated that the sale of the town site lands will yield upward of $20,000,000, or a much larger sum' than was paid by the United States for the entire | Louisiana purchase. No estimate has been made {7( the total value of the mineral lands, but it is be- lieved they will sell at sums yarying from $25 to $250 an acre, so that another large amount will be derived from that source for distribution among the natives. The farm and pasture lands together include more than 11,610,000 acres. They will be graded in value from -25 cents to $6 50 an acre, and divided on that basis.. Indians taking the richer lands will get a farm of 161 acres. Those taking the rougher lands in tHe mountainous sections will get 4165 acres. Ig is estimated that the money,value of the holdings will be about $4000 each. | Such ar€ the prospects of the wards of the nation on attaining what-may be called their majority. Of course the s will not long remain in the hands of most of thefn, for the whites are eager to buy and the Indians in many. cases are willing to sell. Some indeed have already agreed to sell, but the Govem—' ment will treat such agieemems as the acts of a minor and declare them invalid. Moreover, each Indian is required to retain forty acres as a home- stead and cannot sell it for twenty-one years. Thus ample provisions have been made to guard against improvidence, but none the less the beginning of the new order of things will see.a rapid invasion of the Territory by enterprising and progressive white men, so that we might just as well change the name, for it will be no longer an Indian Territory. Even Austria, conservative, sedate, easy-going, is having trouble with her Ministers of state, and one Cabinet has retired to be superseded by another. It is encouraging, however, that the Government has been changed without unnecessary turmoil and not even a single murder. E comes to light a thing so new in the world that mankind is startled into the belief that it rever had a precedent, and will never be repeated, there always comes within a short time an almost ABNORMAL CRIMINALS. XPERIENCE has taught that whenever there parallel occurrence. These repetitions of the ab- normal are especially notable in the domain of crime, so just as we are -abaut to accept some hideous deed as an evidence of a strictly and abso- lutely exceptional depravity there comes another story of a similar crime. When Jack the Ripper frightened London by his atrocious depravities it was thought that such criminal had no model, nor would ever have an imi- tator, but within a comparatively few years after his deeds had become widely known “rippers” appeared irr other countties, and it'was seen that the depravity of the London murderer was by no means peculiar to himself. In other words, he was a type and not! an exception in the criminal world. | Another illustration of the old truth, not less im- | pressive thap that of the appearance of several ripper criminals, is just reported. It will be remembered that only a short time ago the whole country was: horrified by the discovery that a professional nurse | in Massachusetts, 2 woman of great skill and expe- | rience, highly respected by all who knew her, had | deliberately poisoned patient after patient intrusted tq_her care. Confronted with proof of her guilt in| one of these cases, she confessed the whole. Her plea was that she had at times an abnormal passion for handling dead bodies, and that when it came over Ter she was powerlese to resist the desire to kil The Massachusetts authorities dccépted her plea, and she was sent to an asylum as a victim of a dangerous mama. a Such a criminal might well appear to be absolutely exceptional, and yet there is now reported from | Georgia an. almost identical case. The Georgiaf woman was not a professional nurse, but her skillv in tending the sick and her apparent sympathy with | any one suffering from disease caused her to be oiten | requested by her neighbors to assist them in times of ! illness. Many of her patients died under her minis- | trations, but no one suspected the hideous truth that | they were poisoned until a recent case brought to| light evidence to convict. Confronted with the | proof, the Georgia woman has done exactly whatr was done by the woman in Massachusetts—she has ! made confession of a large number of poisonings. | Her plea, however, is quite different from that of the | professional nurse. She says she poisoned her pa-i tients to put them out of pain." In one case she! poisoned a baby to put an end to its distress; then, | seeing the mother grief stricken, she put her to| death to end her wretchedness, and, finally, when the husband broke down by reason of the loss of both | wife and child, she put him to death also. It would scem that there is no such thing possible | as an absolutely exceptional human character. All | criminals have minds more or less abnormal, hut! none of them ever produces a really unique mania. | The worst of them are but types. What one has done, another will do. Solomon's saying, “There is nothing new under the sun,” holds true of crime | as of everything else, an\nature, like history, repeats berself in every chapter. Senator Elkins announces that at the next session of Congress he will introduce a bill providing for a 10 per' cent reduction on all goods brought to this country in American ships. The Senator will find that such a bill will satisfy nobody. There is in- deed a deep and widespread desire for legislation to promote the American merchant marine in interna- tional trade, but the people wish to have that done without lowering a particle of the protection given to our home industries. ‘ California seems aroused to the absolute necessity of making a magnificent display of her resources at the St. Louis Exposition. Since we know that we are able to compete with the world it is no'reason why the world should take us at our word. We must be seen, then judged. No effort should be spared to make that judgment favorable. A Judge of San Jose has contributed another complication to the marital muddles of Californians. He has granted an absolute divorce in the face of legislation providing only for interlocutory decrees of a year’s duration. It seems unfortunate that under the law a fellow can’t tell who his wife is even when he wants to get rid of her. Russia has formally announced her horror at the great crime which robbed Servia of her rulers. In the same breath Russia issues a command to the world to keep hands off while the Servian regicides select a successor. Russia probably feels that she is entitled after beginning the job to finish the whole wretched business herself. . There appear to be so many ways to Democratic !\umony that every faction of the party has one of mth.m and 1o two of them travel along the same HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1903. MISSION BRANCH RAILWAY MUST BE ELECTRIZED The first decisive action pegarding the petition of the Southern Pacific Raiiway Company for a franchise to operate a steam railroad along the bay shore was taken yesterday by the Street Committee of the Board of Supervisors. The com- mittee agreed to recommend that the grant of the franchise be not made if the company persisted in its announced fn- tention to operate trains by steam power along the Mission tracks. The committee will heed the protest of the Mission resi- dents and taxpayers against the contin- uance of the nuisance of the tracks and unless the Southern Pacific Company | | agrees to electrize the road or removes ' the tracks altogether it will hot have the support of the committee in its en- deavor to secure a valuable franchise for its cut-off line. * Michael Mullany addressed the commit- tee and stated that a rider had been add- ed to the original bill granting the pro- posed franchise by which a mile of wa- ter front on Islais Creek wili be turned over to the railroad company should the franchise be granted. “This ‘is an extraordinary grant to make,” said Mullany. “We need all the water front we can get. One raflroad ' company should not have an absolute monopoly of all the approaches, as other companies may desire similar privileges in the future and railroads are essential to the growth of the city.” ' ASKS POSTPONEMENT. Jere T. Burke stated that Chief Enfl*; neer Hood was ill and as he desired to appear before the committee relative to the section affecting the Islais Creek privilege Burke requested a postponement of action on the petition for two weeks. Burke said the ralircad company would be the chief sufferer by the delay. Mul- lany suggested that if continuances were repeatedly to be granted to the company interested arties be notified to save them the trouble of appearing at the meetings. Frank J. Kierce ‘also desired notice to be given him on behalf of certain cilents who want damages on account of chauges in grades which the franchise will neces- sitate. Klerce sald other questions might arise in addition to those already under consideration. A greater cut might be made in the hillside on the Potrero, which wouid necessarily affect adjoining | property, Kierce said. J. W. Copus, Thirty-second District, opposed the grant of a franchise in Islais Creek. The committee then decided to postpone | action until Chief Engineer Hood is able to appear. The committee announced that the matter must be taken up within thir- ty days and the railroad company must | notify the clerk of the board at least five days prior to the date when it desires consideration of the application, so that all interested parties may be notified. USE OF PUBLIC STREETS. The committee postponed consideration of the proposed ordinance restricting the operation of any engine or machine pro- pelled by electricity, steam, gasoline or other motive power on any sidewalk or | street. The ordinance is designed to pro- hibit the operation of housecleaning ma- chines on the streets. P. H. McCarthy requested favorable action on the bill, saying that the San Francisco Com- pressed Alr Cleaning Company could se- cure private property when it desired to clean houses, instead of using the public streets. Cleveland Dam, representing the labor unions, requested passage of the bul as a means of protecting life and property. The committee decided to con- sider the bill jointly with the Judiciary Committee on the 26th inst at 2:30 p. m. James H. Boyer asked the committee to grant him an extension of thirty days within which to remove obstructions maintained by Andrew Fripo at Sixth and Irwin streets, as he desired to have a survey made to see if he were on city property. The committee denied the ap- plication, as extensions have been grant- | ed heretofore. The Board of Works later ihstructed Officer Beach to arrest the owner if the obstructions #re not removed at_once. The City Attorney reported that the deed of Anna Pforr as to certain land re- | | quired for drainage purposes at the head | of Islais Creek was in due form and the committee recommended payment to be made for the land. * , The committee reported in favor of re- | ducing the width of sidewalks on Dun- can street, between San Jose avenue and Tiffany street, to twelve feet. The bids received for furnishing basalt blocks to the Street Department were re- jected, as they are deemed excessive. Action was postponed on the protest of the Sutro estate agalnst granting the pe- | tition of Flinn & Treacy to explode blasts at Uyanus and Ashbury streets. AR P A PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. C. B. Olds of Chicago is at the Cali- | fornia. N. F. Picker, a business man of Sonora, is at the Lick. C. L. Streith, a wine merchant of Napa, is at the Russ. ‘W. E. Hughes, a merchant of Seattle, is at the Grand. W. W. Watts, a merchant of Los An- geles, is at the Lick. 1. Loeb, a dry goods merchant of San Jose, is at the Palace, E. R. Graham, an oil man of Bnkers-‘ field, is at the Palace. E. T. Reichman, a merchant of Fort “Jones, is at the Grand. F. Eaton, a business man of Los An- geles, is at the Palace. J. N. Durney, a lumber man of Sisson, is a guest at the Grand. B. F. Brooks, an oil man of Weed, is registered at thg Palace. I. Turner, a hardware merchant of Mo- ! desto, is a guest at the Grand. M. H. Flint, a merchant of Los Angeles, is registered at the Occldental. H. D. Thomas, one of Seattie’s mer- chants, is stopping at the Palace. F. A. Cody, proprietor of a hotel at Ben ' Lomond, is stopping at the Grand. W. H. Hollenbeck, proprietor of a plan- ing mill at Fresno, is at the Grand. J. Mason Jr., a mining man of Nevada City, and wife are at the California. Mark R. Plaisted, editor of the Fresno | Democrat, is stopping at the California. A. B. Shaver, who is engaged in the | lumber business at Fresno, is at the Pal- ace. M. F. Mack, who is engaged in the gen- eral merchandise business in Livermore, is stopping at the Grand. o m———— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, June 18.—The following Californians are n New York: 8an Francisco—J. Hoole, at the Bartholdi; A. H. Hills, at the Imperial; E. McAllis- ter, at the Manhattan; F. M. Burt, Miss J. Burt, Mrs. J. Burt and J. Burt, at the Kensington; J. Ritchie, at the Cosmopoli- tan. From Los Angelo—A. V. Segno, at the Earlington. —_———— Customs Promotions. Collector Stratton has sent to Wash- Ington the names of the following ap- pointees for ratification: Charles W. Kaplan, elevator conductor, B William ¥, Margo, deceased; O. K. Cloud tehman, messenger at $840 per lnnmn:AlheftL.B':mn.el k at e i o 001 be g:m:lgkmmu clerk_at $840, vice Albert L. Behneman, to be clerk fhe ) ‘at $1000; J. Bagley, watehman. to be inspector 3B Pepin at “-l‘f day, vice Assemblyman from the | From | INHERITOR | OF RICHES IS MISSING ' i MISSING MAN, FOR WHOM } | PROPERTY WAS LEFT IN | GERMANY. i (Lawyers Make Efforts t | Locate Lucky Young German. e | | Special Dispateh to The Call ‘y AN RAFAEL, June 1S.—An estate | | valued at about $250,000 is awaiting | ! Albert Meyer in the German cap- | | ital. But Albert Meyer cannot be | | found. Inquirfes have proved fruit-| {less, and it is belleved that the young | ! man who left his home in Berlin many | years ago to make his fortune in Amer-| jca will never be located. | Meyer is-now about 2 years old. He| was born in Briesen, West Prussia, and | !is the 'son of Max Meyer, a prominent | grain merchant of Berlin and a member of the Reichstag. The father was a very | { wealthy man. The son was of an Inde-| pendent sort and instead of profiting by | | the advantages which hfs parent's wealth | | would allow him, he ran away from home | when he was about 18 years” old and | | salled for the United States, Communica- | | tion with him was not had for severai| {years, but finally he appeared ‘in Los | Angeles and wrole to his parents in Ger- | , many. He told of his travels and vieissi- | tudes, but asked no ald. The father, how. | ever, sent money to him and the son im- | | mediately returned the draft uncashed, | | with the statement that he wished no aid ! from any one. The father died soon after | that incldent, leaving an estate valued at | | over $1,000,000, to be divided among lh—.l | wife, one daughter and two sons, Albert, | the missing one, and Dr. Hugo Meyer of | | Berlin. The runaway son had not written home | for a long time and his addréss was no known. The executors of the estate, how ever, have been advertising extensiveiy to | learn of his whereabouts. Mrs. Emily L. | Cohn of 641 Golden Gate avenue, San | Franeigeo, a cousin of the family. was | communicated with, but knows nothing of | the whereabouts of the young man. The | last she saw of him was nearly five years ago, when he visited her in San Francis- | co. At that time young Meyer stated he | would never write home again. She now ! thinks he must either be dead or else that | his extreme independent nature forbids | him from allowing his relatives to know where he is. D e o g Corporation Gives Up Business. The San Luis Obispo Land and Cattle | Company petitioned the Superior Court | yesterday for leave to disolve the cor-| | poration. The directors of the company | are Wendell Easton, R. G. Landgrebe and J. C. Jones. — e Degree Conferred on Dr. Ellinwood. | NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. June 18— | The degree of LL.D. was conferred tosday | {upon C. N. Ellinwood, president of the | Cooper Medical School of San Franciseo, | by Rutger's College. i | | 4| more. | stationery which Hassell has recelved |1 AUDITOR BAEHR SAYS EXPERTS ARE EXPENSIV Auditor Baehr is beginning to think the employment of experts by the Supervis ors’ Finance Committee is an expensive proposition for the city. Yesterday Baehr declined to andit a demand for-typewrit- ing filed by the Hassell Audit Compan which has been experting the books the Board of Public Works and Count Clerk for the last ten months, on the ground that the charge for the work excéssive. - As a further reason for refusing to af- fix his signature to the demand Baehr states that he has ascertained that J. J Hassell, president of the Audit Company. has procured supplies from the stationer clerk of the Board of Supervisors free of expense to himself, which Baehr thinks should have been bought by Fassel Baehr has figured that Hassell obtained supplieg amounting to 345l in (his way and intends to charge bhim with amount as an offset to the demand f typewriting flled by the company which he is president. The demand typewriting which Baehr considers high is as follows; For labor and material in pre; i igation of County Cler sieven extra coples. Typewriting s ;' Miss Carrie L. Gleason, 8 days. including nig Sunday and holiday work, $25: Miss Donald, S da cluding as above, . 1. Stoan, 7 days, including as above, comparing copy. etc.. Arthur J. Marr day: rental of typewriting machines. 2 at § sach per week, $3. Total, §78. Baehr, a few days ago, signed a d mand for $250 as salary for Hassell and another demand for $4%8 as salary for 2 sistants employed by Hassell. Baehr b lieves that under these conditions Hasseil ghould pay for his own stationery instea! of the city standing the expense, especia ly as Hassell has drawn $350 per month from the city for the last ten ménths o paring report s office to F Baehr is astounded at the amount | trom the city. On November 10. 1%2, he was furnished with eighteen items of supplies, including one ream of typewrit- ing paper, one gross of pens. six record books, one box of typewriting paper, one bex carbon purple, three bottles of ink and two twenty-four inch rulers. On March 11, 1903, Hassell was furnished thir ty-two items of supplies, including two reams of typewriting paper. two pairs of shears, one gross pens. five quirts of ink, one box of carbon purple. On April 15, 1903, Hassell received from the city six memorandum books, six red and blus pencils and two lead pencils. More pens, paper and pencils, comprising ten items, were advanced to Hassell on June 17, 1903, together with one ream of journal eap paper, one ream of typewriting paper and one box of carbon paper, and Baehr thinks it is time to eall a ha —_— ORPHEUM WAITEE MEETS AN UNEXPECTED DEATH Killed by a Lumber Pile Falling on Him While Fishing on ‘Wharf. Henry Kummerow, waiter. been employed at the Orpheum ever since the house was opened. met death sudden- Iy yesterday afternoon under the most distressing circumstances. The deceased was spending a few hofr of his leisure time fishing from the Pow- ell-street wharf. A careless teamster #f backed his wagon Into a pile of lumb 4 near where Kummerow was standing and the entire weight of the timber fell on the unfortunate man. He was picked up n an unconscious condition and removed to the Harbor Emergency Hospital. Upon being lald uvon the operating tabie it was found that the man had his coilar bone and several ribs broken and fnternal a who has | injurtes. He died about an hour after he had been taken to the hospital. Manager John Morrisey of the Or- pheum and Assistant Treasurer Hertz ar- rived at the hospital just before the man died and made the necessary arrange- ments in reference to the disposition of the body. As it was a clear case of ae- cidental death the body was net removed to the Morgue. but was taken to a local undertaking establishment Kummerow was a native of Prussia, and 47 years of age. He had no relatives in this country. He was very popular at the Orpheum, owing to his genial nature and willingness to oblige all the patrons of the house. His relatives in Prussia have been noti- fled of his deAth, and no arrangements for the funeral wiil be made until a reply has been received from them. ——————— Appraise Cattleman’s Estate. The estate df James M. 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